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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feticide

Feticide \Fe"ti*cide\ (? or ?), n. [Written also f[oe]ticide.] [Fetus + L. caedere to kill.] (Med. & Law) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feticide

also foeticide, 1842; see fetus + -cide. Related: Feticidal.

Wiktionary
feticide

n. An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus.

WordNet
feticide

n. the act of destroying a fetus [syn: aborticide]

Wikipedia
Feticide

Feticide (or foeticide) is an act that causes the death of a fetus.

Usage examples of "feticide".

Russia and China had racism, oppression, state-mandated feticide, imperialism, gulags, religious intolerance, expanding nuclear stockpiles and enough murdered dissidents and purged peasants to make the Altamont Rock Festival look like a half-filled phone booth.